For station owners

Your antenna.
Your station.
Station Reserve.

A premium plan you can't buy. Reserved for station owners.

See the plansHow it works
The plans

What a station owner holds.

You run your own receiver and it sends what it hears to Gangway AIS. Your equipment stays yours. Both plans follow your vessels and ports on your account, for one person.

Station Reserve

For station owners.

10 vessels 3 ports
  • An email when they anchor, berth or sail
  • A heads-up before vessels reach your ports
  • A morning list of what is arriving
  • A weekly summary and arrivals in your calendar
  • AIS call timelines up to 90 days back for your vessels
  • Other reports 20 % off
  • On the live chart: Follow, Ahead and route planning
THE HUNDRED

Station Reserve Prime

For The Hundred and for stations that stand out, by invitation.

50 vessels 10 ports
  • All of Station Reserve, at this size
  • Port call summaries and histories up to 90 days back for your vessels
  • 10 longer histories and 10 port reports a month
  • Other reports 30 % off
  • Up to 90 days back on the live chart, as far as our record reaches
The Hundred

The Hundred.

Station Reserve Prime is held by The Hundred. A station that joins while a place is open becomes one of them.

Only for station owners

Yours, on either plan.

Your station page

Private to you: the vessels it heard, the range it reached and its history.

A word when it goes quiet

An email after 3 hours with nothing from your station, once each time. You can turn it off.

A monthly report

The vessels your station heard and the share of hours it was online.

Share yours, get the pool back

Send what you hear.
Get the whole pool back.

A station on Station Reserve or Prime gets a feed key of its own. It brings back what the pool hears, live: the messages of our volunteer stations and of the open feeds of Norway and Finland.

0Messages thinned out
0API requests a second
0daysOf tracks
0keyFor your account, renewable

Live, as heard

The messages as the pool hears them, with nothing thinned and no delay added. Raw NMEA lines, or JSON with the decoded fields.

Positions and tracks

The same key answers API v1 for the vessels in an area, one vessel and her track up to 90 days back.

One key for your account

Shown once on your station page, where you can renew it. It pauses with your plan and comes back with it.

Limits that keep it running

One live stream at a time, up to 5 API requests a second and 300 a minute.

For your own use

Under the Station Feed Licence: private use, research and teaching. Where others see it, our credit goes with it. Passing it on or business use needs a paid plan or a written agreement with us.

How it works

Plainly.

No payment either way. The full terms are in the Station Agreement.

Online at least 85 % of the monthThe plan runs while your station is online at least 85 % of the hours of a calendar month.
A check each dayWe compare your station's reports with what other sources heard in its area at the same times. A new station that does not match has no plan until we have looked. A running plan carries on while we look and goes on hold only after three failed days in a row, or if we put it on hold.
A month below 85 %We write to you and the plan carries on.
A second month in a row belowThe plan pauses and your account is back on what you pay for. Vessels and ports above that plan's limit are paused, not deleted.
A month at 85 % or moreThe plan comes back.
What you need

A small set, a high spot.

A receiver that gives its messages as NMEA lines works. You keep your own equipment.

An AIS receiverA dedicated AIS receiver, or a radio dongle on a small computer running decoding software.
A marine VHF aerialMade for 162 MHz, mounted as high as you can, with a clear view of the sea and no hill or building in the way.
Power and internetDay and night. A home or office connection is enough: a station sends little data.
Permission for the spotThe right to put the aerial where you put it: your own roof, or with the owner's yes.
Joining in one minute

One more output.

Your receiver can send to the network it already feeds and to us at once. Nothing else changes. Your address and port come from the feed page.

AIS-catcher takes several UDP outputs, one -u each. Keep the one you have and add ours:

AIS-catcher -d:0 -u network-address network-port -u your-address your-port

In the web interface: Settings, Output, UDP. Add a second UDP output with your address and port.

rtl_ais sends to one address. Point it at kplex on the same computer and let kplex send to both:

rtl_ais -h 127.0.0.1 -P 10110
[udp]
direction=in
port=10110

[udp]
direction=out
address=network-address
port=network-port

[udp]
direction=out
address=your-address
port=your-port

Put the block in your kplex configuration file and restart kplex.

dAISy gives NMEA lines on its USB port at 38400 baud. kplex reads them and sends to both:

[serial]
filename=/dev/ttyACM0
baud=38400
direction=in

[udp]
direction=out
address=network-address
port=network-port

[udp]
direction=out
address=your-address
port=your-port

On Windows the port is a COM port, for example COM3.

How to join

Next steps

  1. Your station sends to usThe feed page gives it a port of its own and a private station page.
  2. About a week onYour station page shows how it has been online.
  3. You join from that pageYou accept the Station Agreement and your station links to your account. Nothing changes on your receiver.

Start with your station

Already feeding us? Your private station page shows when Station Reserve is ready for you. New to this? The feed page takes a few minutes.

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